Google photos: tips and tricks for Google's new photo app

Google photos: tips and tricks for Google's new photo app

Google's new photo app is here. She hears on the simple name Google photos or Google photos, but offers many features and improvements over the old photos app, which was still part of Google +. We have compiled here the best tips and tricks for Google photos for you. Update: In split albums and photos it is immediately possible, to insert comments. How to do that, you will find photos in the latest tip to Google.

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Disk space
Edit photos
Mark fast
Change layout
Search for places, people and more
Delete photos
Sharing photos and albums
Comment on photos and albums
Person labels
Chromcast support
Unlimited disk space
Google photos offers you unlimited online storage space for your photos and videos, but only when you upload your files in full-resolution online on Google. To get unlimited disk space, opens Google photos, tap the menu icon top left and then click settings. Types there to back up and synchronize and new view on upload size. Decide here for high quality, to get free unlimited storage space. Your photos are then down scaled to 16 megapixels, videos are 1920 x 1080 pixels. If so you have a camera with more megapixels, which can record videos in 4 K, you need to prepare you to slightly reduce the quality of the unlimited space.

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If you decide to "High quality", you have unlimited storage space for your photos. / © ANDROIDPIT
Select folders to synchronize
By default, Google synchronizes the photos that you have shot with the Smartphone camera photos, you can choose but also other folders with photos for synchronization. This is done in two ways:

If Google finds a new folder with images photos, you will receive a notification and the app asks you whether the folder to be backed up.
Opens Google photos and type in the left menu on device folder. There all folders are shown you, that contain photos. Taps right next to the folder name on the gray cloud, so that this folder is also backed up by Google photos.
Edit photos
Google offers powerful tools for image editing photos. All what you must do is to tap that you want to edit the photo and then click the PIN. Here you have several choices: you can add details to how light and color adjust, optimize your photos automatically or even filter of à la Instagram. The cropping of images is also possible. Playing around with the various options, necessary changes can be reversed, you should be dissatisfied with the result.

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Some of the editing features of Google photos. / © ANDROIDPIT
Be creative
Google launches photos and presses on the plus icon top right. Now you can create your albums, movies, stories, animations or collages. The rest of photos simply chooses the photos that you want to use and Google does more or less for you.

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Unleash your creativity! / © ANDROIDPIT
Fast selecting and marking photos
To select multiple photos quickly at once and save time using this trick photos for Google:

Hold down your finger on the first photo and then wipes the other images that you want to also mark. The photos are then also selected unless you need to depose your finger. This saves time especially if you want to select many photos at once because you must highlight not more each photo individually.

Change the photos view
Google photos sorted your photos day (today, yesterday, Monday, Friday, Saturday...). You can also change the view by it performs a two-finger gesture: spreading your fingers to enlarge the photos or it shrinks to switch to a month / year view.

Google photos photo view
Changes the view of photos with a two-finger gesture. / © ANDROIDPIT
Search for people, places, things, and more
One of the coolest features of Google is the clever algorithm that automatically sorts your recordings by categories photos. You have to go only on the magnifying glass press bottom right and already different categories are displayed depending on the photos - you -. I see for example Berlin, cats, or skylines. You can press but also top on the search box and search for any terms, such as faces and flowers. As a result her photos your years i ago finds at lightning speed, even,

Simple sharing photos
With Google, it was photos has never been easier to share your images with friends and acquaintances. It's not even plays a role, whether other people also use Google photos, because you sent a link via the can retrieve the shared photos from other. Simply follow this Google photos Tip:

Select the photos to be shared and type then click the share icon (left of the plus sign). In the new view of parts you must order from now on link press. A parts link is generated, which is then copied to your Clipboard. Now, you can share this link with friends about WhatsApp or by E-Mail.

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Sharing photos has never been easier. / © ANDROIDPIT
Google photos: common photo albums (shared album)
Until now it was with Google not possible, photos of different users in one and the same album upload photos. Google wants to remedy with the new shared album feature. To use this feature, you sent a link to the corresponding photo album so that your contacts can access to the folder. Each link receiver can then add more images as a user of the album itself. All persons associated with the album receive a notification on the respective device when new photos are posted. So you can then, for example, easily share pictures of birthday parties or joint excursions.

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Soon, several users may upload pictures in the same photo album. / © ANDROIDPIT
Google photos: comment on photos and albums
Shared photos and albums can be annotated directly in the app. This comment feature requires Google photos at least in the version 1.20 for Android or the 1.10 for iOS. You have one of these versions of Google photos, then you can share photos and albums with your friends and they can comment directly in the app. A speech bubble icon is located at the bottom of the app. If you click on this, the comment box will open and you can comment immediately. All users who were release for the image or album, then get a notification that there is a new comment. This comment feature images and albums with a much more vivid impression.

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As of version 1.20 for Android, you can comment on photos and albums. / © ANDROIDPIT
Google photos: people labels
Another new feature allows you to identify individuals on images. So you can later easier photos look after, to see where certain individuals are. This is especially handy if the photo gallery contains a lot of pictures, so, for example, just too many pictures exist of the Majorca. Should be shown several people as a motive, you can individually mark each person, where the tags for others are not visible. The function for Android users available to are already starting this week, the iOS app and the Web application are to follow later.

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People labels to make the search easier for specific images. / © ANDROIDPIT
Google photos: Chromecast support
The photos app is compatible with Chromecast finally supposed to get photos via Google images from your Smartphone to your TV streamed? Before the images end up on the big screen, you may select which appear of the Smartphone or tablet. Also videos and animated GIF files can be so displayed. This new feature is available starting this week to use; iOS users and the Google photos Web service get the function later.

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